placenamesGlenderry
Gleann Doire
Glenderry's coastal community appears in a 1965 rescue-service report, while its former school found a new purpose after classes moved elsewhere.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Gleann Doire · Irish · main form · validated name
- Glenderry · English · main form
Place & story
The volunteer rescue crew
An RTÉ Newsbeat report broadcast on 10 September 1965 recorded the quarterly inspection of Glenderry's Coast Guard Life Saving Service. Captain Philip Duggan, superintendent for the west coast, inspected a fifteen-member volunteer crew. They brought out a wagon already forty years old, carrying rockets, maroons and breeches buoys. The report documents a shore-based rescue service whose equipment depended on volunteers assembling and working together when a vessel came into danger. [2]
Practising a line to a wreck
The same report describes two exercises demonstrated at Glenderry. A maroon fired from a mortar gave the signal for the crew to gather. A rocket then carried a line towards a practice post 110 metres away, representing a stranded vessel. Three men acting as its crew signalled with a white flag when they had received the line, allowing hauling to begin. The drill rehearsed the practical sequence needed to establish a connection from shore. [2]
An old school reused
The public-library learning resource Ask About Ireland records that Glenderry's former national school became a craft museum after pupils moved to a new building. Scoil Naomh Erc, the local school, identifies 1963 as its establishment date. Read together, the accounts distinguish the continuing educational institution from an older school building that acquired a different community use. The library account records that reuse without supplying its opening date as a museum. [3] [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Civil parish
- Ballyheige
- Coordinates
- 52.39765, -9.88075 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412436 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Glenderry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Glenderry Coast Guard Life Saving Service 1965 · RTÉ Archives; Newsbeat
- Scoil Naomh Erc: school history and establishment date · Glenderry National School
- Life After School: Glenderry National School, Ballyheigue · Ask About Ireland, public-library learning resource
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